Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail […]
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. Intellectual force is a principal element of the soul’s life, and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being. William Ellery Channing (1780 – 1842)
The only elevation of a human being consists in the exercise, growth, energy of the higher principles and powers of his soul. A bird may be shot upwards to the skies by a foreign force; but it rises, in the true sense of the word, only when it spreads its own wings and soars by its own living power. William […]
I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which is has deliberately espoused. William Ellery Channing (1780 – 1842)
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from heaven, which, whilst consulting others, inquires still more of the oracle within itself, and […]
If thou remember’st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)